They can ask… that doesn’t mean I have to like the request.
My position is that asking is not a violation of free speech. The social media companies still have the power to deny the request. If the government then punished them, that is an issue. Just look at Desantis vs Disney.
The producers of the “Twitter Files” adamantly disagree with you. In court.
“Here, nothing in the new materials suggests any statute or regulation dictating or authorizing Twitter’s content-moderation decisions with respect to Plaintiffs’ accounts. To the contrary, the new materials show that Twitter takes content-moderation actions pursuant to its own rules and policies.“
“Such requests to “do more to stop the spread of false or misleading COVID-19 information,” untethered to any specific threat or requirement to take any specific action against Plaintiffs, is “permissible persuasion” and not state action“
“First, the simple act of receiving information from the government, or of deciding to act upon that information, does not transform a private actor into a state actor.“
Also Trump did request that information about him be removed from Twitter. I would still agree that a request is not a 1A violation. Even when Trump did it.
I already gave you evidence of congress making said threats.
Where was the FBI ever given leave to review the lawful speech of American citizens?
They also very clearly have every motivation to lie.
Of course not, we know it, he knows it.
The court was demanding an expressed government rule or statute which forced Twitter to harm the plaintiffs. After basically denying that the plaintiffs showed they specifically were harmed, it said there was no statute or rule being used to force the defendant into specific action.
I hope that is not the standard to be used to protect our first amendment rights and that generalized threats by the government unless media obeys is the new rule. If so, the first amendment is nothing.
I notice you didn’t respond as to your being consistent if Trump were to be re-elected and started surreptitiously demanding bannings.
It’s public information…
Twitter is lying about Twitter… under Musk? 
Twitter was defending against a law suit.
“It’s public information.”
The FBI said they were helping Twitter enforce its own rules.
When did it become the legitimate purpose of the FBI to enforce corporate policies instead of federal laws?
I already said FBI should find better use of their time. However, They have the right to access public information. They have the right to inquire about public information too.
No, they have the authority to enquire about illegal speech, not legal speech.
Defending by saying they weren’t pressured by the government. I think twitter would know best, right? This was Musk Twitter saying this…
How many times do I have to link both congress and the White House threatening them openly if they didn’t accede to their demands for unlawful censorship?
Irrelevant. It’s public information.
That does not mean the FBI was ever given authority to make requests to censor legal speech. They are tasked with enforcing the law, not colluding to interfere in elections by censoring legal speech.
You should tell Twitter. Or Trumps lawyers.
What you linked is an article from 2021, saying Biden is asking congress to review section 230… something both Biden and Trump have been saying since 2017/18…
That article doesn’t point to a specific request or set of requests that prompted them to threaten Facebook.
I mean, it’s your credibility to throw away I guess.
